Diet Soda
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I love Diet Dr. Pepper, and I've lost 125 lbs while drinking Diet Dr. Pepper.0
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Torontonius wrote: »Aspartame lobby is very powerful. Stuff should be banned. Soda in general is bad for your health, sodas interfere with calcium uptake and have a negative effect on bone density.
Fortunately, weight bearing exercise increases bone density. So, I'll just drink my diet Coke in between sets at the gym.
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Switch to seltzer water. I'm not a fan of soda period. Regular soda is so sweet it makes my teeth hurt and diet soda has a nasty after taste (and yes, even though there are "studies" that state aspartame is "good for you" and "doesn't cause harm" I'm going to err on the side of caution and skip it because I mean it's not like the FDA ever lies. Go ahead and flame me, call me a fear monger or what have you this is just the way I personally feel.) I find that when I am craving soda it's just the carbonation that I want so I drink seltzer.0
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It's probably the same as diet sodas but I wouldn't really worry about consuming it unless you're having 15 - 20 bottles a day.0
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Mwehehe at first I was thinking "HOW COULD YOU INSULT WATER!" and then I realized that's H2O... Felt a tad dumb at first.stevencloser wrote: »__drmerc__ wrote: »I heard diet sodas are full of chemicals
I heard our water supply is full of a chemical called dihydrogen monoxide.
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goddessofawesome wrote: »I'm not a fan of soda period. Regular soda is so sweet it makes my teeth hurt and diet soda has a nasty after taste I find that when I am craving soda it's just the carbonation that I want so I drink seltzer.
This is what I find as well, but plain seltzer is nasty with my liquor.
OP, I drink that ICE stuff all the time. Mostly with my booze. I have lost nearly 25 lbs on MFP while drinking it, and I'm still going strong. It won't hurt your weight loss efforts. And I think it has Sucralose in it, not aspartame, if you prefer that.
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I will throw my two cents in. From what I've gathered through my travels around the interweb, artificial sweetener are processed in a way that can adversely affect your metabolism. So yes they have zero calories but they may slow down your metabolic rate which can affect your weight loss goals. I'll drink a diet coke every now and then with a meal or use crystal light with my waters from time to time. Enjoy in moderation. The cancer thing, we'll leave that for another thread.0
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claygirl1518 wrote: »I may catch a lot of upset for posting contrary to most people's responses, but from my experience, it's not a great idea. I used to drink between 4-8 coke zeros a day (ridiculous I know). I cut them out as well as "splenda" and "equal". When I was drinking sodas I had headaches pretty much everyday, but attributed it to other things. So far, I'm feeling SO much better. No headaches, and my weight has dropped almost 4 lbs in the last 5 days. I actually decided to drop the sodas for my health and because I was stalled in weight loss for 2 months (working out 45 mins 3 days a week and eating 1350 cals a day, on plan the whole time) and now all the sudden with this change it's coming off again. I still have espresso in the morning, to make sure I don't go through caffeine withdrawal, and I drink Perrier as well, for a bubbles fix.
I think overall some people are very sensitive to aspartame and other sweeteners (my friend with PCOS has to avoid maltodextrin like it's the plague). For most though, it seems fine. The research that's out there is all speculative at this point, if you read the studies, there is a small correlation, not causation.
Cutting it out has helped me, I'm treating it like an experiment. So, maybe, cut it out and the sparkling ice for a few weeks, if you feel better, great! If you add it back and you feel good, don't avoid it anymore. Totally up to you. Good luck.
Yup! I used to drink 4-5 cans of Diet Pepsi a day....sometimes even before noon. I never over ate because of the pop, but I can tell you that once I stopped drinking pop altogether, diet or otherwise, I started losing the weight.
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I was a diet soda addict. Diet Coke was like crack to me. I started thinking when I was pregnant with my 2nd baby that if doctors are telling me to limit diet soda for the baby's health, it probably isn't all that great for mine. I have a diet soda like once a month (usually with rum). However, I still put sweet n low in my 2-3 cups of coffee and it hasn't inhibited my weight loss. Down 35 lbs.0
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HotCuppaJo wrote: »claygirl1518 wrote: »I may catch a lot of upset for posting contrary to most people's responses, but from my experience, it's not a great idea. I used to drink between 4-8 coke zeros a day (ridiculous I know). I cut them out as well as "splenda" and "equal". When I was drinking sodas I had headaches pretty much everyday, but attributed it to other things. So far, I'm feeling SO much better. No headaches, and my weight has dropped almost 4 lbs in the last 5 days. I actually decided to drop the sodas for my health and because I was stalled in weight loss for 2 months (working out 45 mins 3 days a week and eating 1350 cals a day, on plan the whole time) and now all the sudden with this change it's coming off again. I still have espresso in the morning, to make sure I don't go through caffeine withdrawal, and I drink Perrier as well, for a bubbles fix.
I think overall some people are very sensitive to aspartame and other sweeteners (my friend with PCOS has to avoid maltodextrin like it's the plague). For most though, it seems fine. The research that's out there is all speculative at this point, if you read the studies, there is a small correlation, not causation.
Cutting it out has helped me, I'm treating it like an experiment. So, maybe, cut it out and the sparkling ice for a few weeks, if you feel better, great! If you add it back and you feel good, don't avoid it anymore. Totally up to you. Good luck.
Yup! I used to drink 4-5 cans of Diet Pepsi a day....sometimes even before noon. I never over ate because of the pop, but I can tell you that once I stopped drinking pop altogether, diet or otherwise, I started losing the weight.
If you weren't losing weight, it's because you were eating more calories than you were burning, it wasn't the zero calorie diet sodas. Weight loss=calories in - calories out.0 -
goddessofawesome wrote: »(and yes, even though there are "studies" that state aspartame is "good for you" and "doesn't cause harm" I'm going to err on the side of caution and skip it because I mean it's not like the FDA ever lies. Go ahead and flame me, call me a fear monger or what have you this is just the way I personally feel.)
No flaming - free to your own opinion, but for others reading the thread - the FDA isn't the only one to commission studies on Aspartame.
Also one should be very careful of the "funding fallacy".
This is when scientific studies are dismissed instantly due to who funded them. While funding source can certainly be a red light, if you dismiss a study based on funding alone, you may be casting aspersions on the scientists involved (who may have sterling reputations). And if the study has been peer reviewed, then those aspersions are cast upon everyone involved in that process.
When weighing the value of studies, it is much more important to focus on the scientific process IMO.
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Diet Sodas have Aspartame ...and research says that this puts small holes in your brain. Doesn't sound too appetizing anymore.0
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beautifulciera wrote: »Diet Sodas have Aspartame ...and research says that this puts small holes in your brain. Doesn't sound too appetizing anymore.
Well, this is irony0 -
beautifulciera wrote: »Diet Sodas have Aspartame ...and research says that this puts small holes in your brain. Doesn't sound too appetizing anymore.
Can you provide said research?0 -
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Torontonius wrote: »Aspartame lobby is very powerful. Stuff should be banned. Soda in general is bad for your health, sodas interfere with calcium uptake and have a negative effect on bone density.
OMG! Wake up sheeple!0 -
I drink diet pop daily, plus diet Monsters.
Waiting to die...... nope.
BTW, those studies are done in copious amounts no human consumes in one day.... on rats at that.
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martyqueen52 wrote: »I drink diet pop daily, plus diet Monsters.
Waiting to die...... nope.
BTW, those studies are done in copious amounts no human consumes in one day.... on rats at that.
On rats that are already prone to cancer....and....the group of rats that got cancer less than the group that didn't have any Aspartame was the control group that had a moderate amount. Of course the rats that fared the worst were the rats that had the equivalent of 475,000 diet sodas or some obscene number like that in one sitting.
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Torontonius wrote: »Aspartame lobby is very powerful. Stuff should be banned. Soda in general is bad for your health, sodas interfere with calcium uptake and have a negative effect on bone density.
OMG! Wake up sheeple!
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Obviously I am amazing at it.
So you're blaming lack of control as "sweetners make ya fat"?the risk is that the sweet taste (which for artificial sweeteners is much more than actual sugar) makes your body expect to receive calories. when it doesn't, it makes you crave food. You might have an urge to binge. If you don't binge, you don't gain weight. Problem solved. (This is the theory that some use to explain the potential weight gain behind artificial sweeteners, not my own theory).
SMH.
How is the thread still going btw?
HOW DO I READING COMPREHENSION???
Amazingly shatty. It was early I guess? lulz.
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An interesting paper came out in Nature quite recently that showed that some artificial sweetners led to changes in the gut bacteria which in turn led to the development of glucose intolerance/metabolic effects - showing a potential mechanism for why the use of diet drinks/artificial sweetners don't appear to aid weight loss. This was just a mouse study (and there are a couple of comments at the end of the article poking holes in the study) but unfortunately I can't get the full text as it is too expensive (I'd love to see the detail) but I think it is something worth following as more research is carried out. The abstract of the full paper is
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/full/nature13793.html
There is also a discussion of the paper on Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140917131634.htm0 -
Ditto.__drmerc__ wrote: »beautifulciera wrote: »Diet Sodas have Aspartame ...and research says that this puts small holes in your brain. Doesn't sound too appetizing anymore.
Just reading this put holes in my brain
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The only things I drink are copious amounts of water, diet soda and alcohol. Maybe all of the alcohol cancels out the negative, weight-gain-stomach-fat-cancer-causing agents in diet soda, but I haven't had any problems with it.0
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i love diet soda so much tbh.
it makes me really bloated and gassy.
It's terrible for you though, all those chemicals and acids and sweeteners........
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I heard that there is a Devil living in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
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The reason diet soda a beverages are considered bad for you because it has aspartame in it. It may be linked to causing cancer and people who have auto-immune disease are recommended to not use it. It does come naturally in some foods but it's best to limit it. I do know yes a lot of things cause cancer but it's best to avoid things that may. They have not done studies on humans that aspartame for sure causes health issues but there is a possibility. You can go on WEBMD and search diet soda.
I'm pretty sure literally anything you type into WebMD will result in "it causes cancer" or, if you type in symptoms, "you have cancer"0 -
The potassium in sodas might interfere some with calcium uptake, but that's about it. When I was a diabetic, the diet sodas were wonderful. Sugar-loaded sodas were liquid death. Everything in moderation, right? I might enjoy a diet soda or sparkling water a couple times a week. I am required to drink a fair amount of liquid a day and I crave variety so I change it up drinking teas and adding Mio or equivalents to my water. Fruit juices are just too high in calories.0
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Diet Pepsi/or Diet Coke, 4-5 cans a day, lost 121 pounds!!!0
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The thought that Diet Coke is a healthy alternative to regular Coke is absurd. SOME people may be able to lose weight & feed their diet coke addiction, but I didn't lose mine until after I kicked it.0
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